Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-31

San Francisco. aged seventy ya III Of soft-
snin9 Of the brain. sss
AT 81 Louis md peints south she 1Eis-
sisMppt river was closed TO steamb boat nav
igation on tho 9th by the unusually k,w
stage 81 water.
TIE Indianapolis, Quincy d Missouri a1sd
the Indianapolis q Wabash railways weze
consolidated on the 27th un1er the nanra
OF the Indianapolis. Decatur = Western raiI-
way.
IN Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin an Kansas,
. blizzard on the 9th greatly DELAYED rail-.
way trains In some places the cold was in
tense II
THE Prohibitio of Kansas held aState
convention IN Topeka on the 18th and
decided to begin vigorous campaign dur
ing the coming year and to put a full State
ticket in the field.
THE death Of Captain Cyrus yigus. tina
Oldest citisen Of Cass County, Ind. occurred
on the 9th at Logansport, at the age dc
ninety-four years He was veteran ott
the war Of 1872
TIE Western Commercial Travellers, Assoc
citation commenced their annual meeting
at ST. Louis on the 9th The society haa
], $50 members
Mrs IDA NJ. MAoAuLEY, Of Chicago, who
recently shot and killed her husband, was
on the 9th found by coroner's jury to
have been insane and irresponsible for the
act
THERE were A, 1865 miles of railroad con-
structed In the Southwest during 1887
Kansas being far ahead among the different
States
TIE death Of John s. Marmaduke, Glow
ern0r Of Missouri, occurred on the evening
of the 28th at Jefferson City from pneu-
monia. at the age of fifty four years
TIE failure Of g. W. Meade 4 Co, Of San
Francisco, one Of the largest exporting
firms on the Pacific coast, occurred on tho
a2Sth.
Ar Saltwater, Mimi, fourteen horses en-,
gagged in scraping ice on the Fan Claire.
river broke through the ice on the 18th and
were drowned.
TWELVE stores ut Bozeman, NJ T., were.
destroyed by fire on the 2s5h
A FIRE In the Enterprise rice mill at New
Orleans caused a loss on the 28th Of $780,
900.
On the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Mich
igan road a passenger car was upset at
Alma, Mich, by bad frog on the 18th.
and six persons were fatally injured.
IL Battle Creek Mich. Adventists, fully
persuaded that the end of the world is
close at hand, were dtscarding jewehy and
making other preparation on the 28th
S On account of low water in the Ohio
river Louisville and other towns were suf-
fering on the 28th from lack of coal, and
the price had risen one hundred per cent
KANSAS Prohibitionists met at Topeka on
the 285h and elected delegates to the Ma
tiona1 convention.
On the 2Sbh the thermometer ranged
from to / 5 degrees below zero in Iowa,
from 4 to 10 below in Illinois, from to
10 below in Wisconsin, from 10 to q be-
low in Nebraska, from to 18 below in
Kansas, and from to Ia below in Minne-
sofa.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
BAv1sPE Mex advices of the 23d say that
the people in the MISREPRESENTATION
district were suffering terribly from cold
and hunger.
AT Dublin the other day a man named
MacNamara was sentenced to two months
imprisonment, with hard labor, for selling
copies of United Ireland
TIE other day tive thousand persons
marched In procession to the shrine Of
the Virgin at Aix-La-C hapelle and offered
prayers for the recovery of the Crown
Prince of Germany
DYNAMITE explosion on the 23d In "a
limestone quarry near Brookfeld, N. s.,
killed four men and injured two other per-
sons.
The Guatemala revolution was complete
ly put down on the 26th by desperate
battle between the Federal and Revolutions
airy forces in which the latter were defeat
ed and almost annihilated, and their GEN
erals captured and shot
On the 26th Mr.. Gladstone left London
for several months sojourn in Italy.
On the Greek coast fierce storm pre-
vailed on the 9th, and twenty five vessels
were driven ashore or wrecked
FFTY-THREE houses at Aguadilla, a small
port OF Porto Rico, were swept away by q
huge wave on the 9th.
( Mr.. GLADSTONE, in response to an adj
dress presented to him on the 9th at
Dover, made speech in which he char
acteriZed as the darkest blot upon Parlia-
ment che act now in operation affecting the
civil rights of the Irish. He predicted
restoration of the Liberal majority in tho
Commons as the result of the first election.
On the 2sth Germany notified Austria
that she would support the latter in case Of
a war with Russia
ADv1CEs Of the 2Sth say that Lord STAN
ley will succeed Lord Lansdowne as Gov
ernor- General of Canada.
The heaviest snOW-stOrm on record In
Southern Europe WIS raging on the 26th,
and the weather was nnprecedentedly cold
LATER.